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This A- list mostly movie actor who is an Academy Award winner/nominee forgot to pick up his kid(s) from school because he was using drugs and ended up having to call someone to pick up his kid(s). This is a tragic tale going on and he needs some help.

Philip Seymour Hoffman (This would have been revealed today anyway because of the date but it is kind of eerie that almost the same thing happened the morning he died)

oh call the whambulance. Sick of hearing about this selfish junkie. I don't care if this is a wildly unpopular statement to make by anyones standard's. Why does there NOW seem to be the need to round up drug dealers in Manhattan because Philip Seymour Hoffman who had the whole world by the balls, went and pissed his life away. Never mind the countless lives these same drug dealers ruined prior to last week

I wish he could have had some intervention or sober companion… I am so glad to hear about people like Joaquin Phoenix and Michelle Williams going to their house everyday to help the family cope with their loss. Other celbrities are as well but these two in particular having lost loved ones due to drug loss I would imagine they have a lot of love to share at this time

Aaron Sorkin quoted Hoffman as saying: "If one of us dies of an overdose, probably ten people who were about to won't." Before adding: "He meant that our deaths would make news and maybe scare someone clean."

I thought I would get crucified for that one but needed to get it off my chest and I was a fan of his films and all but him going around telling strangers about being a junkie and buying sooo much heroin at once–he just comes across as a selfish drama queen who could give a damn about his family.

So true! Proves that law enforcement work to serve and protect the dominant and wealthy in society, while continuing to marginalize and forget about the minority, middle/poor classes. Shame. Thousands of regular civilians succumb to the perils of addiction, but some millionaire celebs dies from OD and they're going after his alleged dealers..GMAFB

@Derek, thank you! Would these same people be saying how sad it was and how it was such a tragic loss if it had just been a guy living under a bridge? These Hollywood junkies selfishly do this to themselves and their families and they become martyrs to the evil drug culture (Ledger DOES NOT win the Academy Award for his role as the Joker if he doesn't die) but then turn around and say a local guy is a loser for doing the exact same thing. Hoffman got famous for doing an impression of a short gay writer who in turn got famous for writing a book about his gay lover who ended up hanging for butchering a family. The real victims of these crimes/drug deaths are never thought of. PSH wasn't a tragic victim of drugs, he was a selfish bastard that knew everytime he stuck a needle in his arm he was playing russian roulette.

With all due respect, anyone who thinks that addicts — in particular heroin addicts — are merely selfish assholes must not understand how the brain literally changes due to addiction. Once the body is dependent on a substance like heroin, the brain is no longer the person's own. Chemicals change and are no longer released, grooves and patterns are worn away in the mapping of the brain…it's a completely biological/medical thing at that point. Some people can get clean but their brains may never be the same again.

Here's another thing. They found about 50 bags of heroin in Hoffman's home. NOBODY keeps that kind of stash for themselves. I think the reason they are so intent of finding his dealers is because Hoffman was a big time dealer in Hollywood. Make some arrests so people think that they got the "bad guys" so that info doesn't come out that this "poor, tragic soul" was pushing to all the big time Hollywood stars and execs.

My best friend died from a drug overdose (actually from strychnine poisoning from what they were cutting it with), we came forward with the names of the guys that were selling it to him. Guess what happened to them? Not a Goddamn thing. Why? They were also selling to the (then) prosecuting attorney and the mayors kids. They made some arrests of other dealers in the area, but the people they had actual evidence against and people willing to take the stand got away scott free because it would embarrass people in power. I'm happy to say that in the end the guy that actually sold it to him died at a railroad crossing when his car died on one and he fell asleep and the other one walks with a limp now after some people beat the shit out of him for some reason and broke both his legs and his jaw. (No idea who did that and I'll take that story to my grave)

I agree it's hard to have sympathy for Hoffman, but I do have sympathy for his family. I lost my ex-husband to a speedball overdose. I don't buy 'it was an impulse, he was an addict and couldn't stop'. He could have stopped prior to making a call to his dealer, prior to walking to the ATM to get money, before opening the first baggie he could have tossed it away. Could have stopped before bending the spoon back and putting flame beneath it or cotton and water in it to mix with the heroin. It is utter bullshit. He could has changed his mind at any point along the way. He loved drugs more than his life, his partner/wife, and his kids. That is despicable in my mind. Sorry for the rant. Touches a nerve way to close to home for me.

@derek, totally agree. Even though it is true that drugs change a persons brain, PHS was sober for over 20 years, his brain learned to cope, he was selfish to relapse and not seek the help he needed. It was not new to him, he had alreay tasted the fruits of sobrierity for a long time. @rowdy, it must be us achingly frustrating for all those parents, spouses and children to see his authorities raced to find PHS' dealers, yet their dearly beloved ones were just brushed off as "junkies who were supposed to die, anyway". It is so horrible.

@AKM, I understand that. As someone who has studied neuroscience as a part of trying to help himself heal from a major brain injury (I literally lost the use of the left side of my brain after a stroke and have tried to learn to basically rewire my entire brain little by little in a way) I know how the brain releases certain chemicals and any changes to that can change a person forever. However, I say he was selfish because he knew that he had hardwired himself to feel the need of heroin's effects, yet chose not to have someone help him with those feelings of need. Even before my stroke I was addicted to pain pills. There wasn't anything I didn't take (always had prescriptions, though. I just lied about the injuries and would go to the doc and get something and say they didn't work and needed something stronger. I could get away with it because I did have some things like no cartilage in my knees from a form of muscular dystrophy and things like that). However, I quit them and still to this day I want them. My Dad has them right now on his dresser for his back and knees, but I don't do them. Why? Everytime I think about it my Dad reminds me what I went through 15 years ago and what it did to not just me but my family. I hear that and I just forget about it.

Hoffman needed someone that would tell him no. That's the problem with stars, they have so many people telling them how great they are and how they know better than anyone else, they feel invincible. For God's sake, this is award season, the time of the year these douchebags get together and tell each other how great they are at playing pretend.

I stand by that he was selfish because he knew the risks, he knew his kids could grow up with the stigma of having a father die of an OD and still went ahead and did it. That is selfish and having your pain and pleasure receptors rewired doesn't change that.

I agree with most of you folks here…I don't like the idea of the glamorous junkie. Someone like PSH is no better or no worse than the crack den junkie. All the talent and awards mean nothing when you have a needle in your arm. I know that money doesn't buy happiness, but it can buy the best therapy and rehab facilities. It can give a celebrity the freedom to take time off from projects and get healthy. I don't think the industry or in some cases the hangers on support that.

Rowdy – You bring up an interesting point about PSH being a dealer. When I read the amount of heroin they found, that thought popped into my mind as well. Who keeps that much around for personal use? Maybe he did because he's famous and can't go out and buy a baggie every day without it being noticed, but it still seems odd.

@katjans i completely agree. the amount he had in his apt did not surprise me. when i was at my worst usage wise i could go thru a bun or two a day (10-20) so him having 70 or so is just a weeks worth.

Agree on the real tragedy being the wife and kids left behind. That's a scar that will take a long time, if ever, to heal properly.

That said, I have little sympathy for junkies. One is wrecking my inlaws' lives right now, and it's hard watching this go down. They continue to enable the selfish lout, and no one else can do a thing. It makes me sick.

I get what you're saying but I think the various drug task forces were hoping to nab the fentanyl laced heroin that has had scores of ppl OD'ing. They've been trying to trace its source before he died.

Tots agree, Derek. I come from a very troubled city that is being ravaged by heroin horribly. Yes, PSH's passing is sad, but so too are are the deaths in my hometown and in other towns all over the world. Drug addiction is a vice if the person is poor, and even more so if they're of color. If it's a rich white man, then it's suddenly a tragic "disease."

My Mom's a Jedi psychologist with 25 years in practice specializing in addiction and family therapy. When I remarked comments similar to yours about him, my Mom replied:

'Each case is different. He put himself in rehab not that long ago and has battled this for 30 years. He probably had "it" worse. Never judge someone who has a long history of addiction with long periods of sobriety.'

Rowdy, I hear what you're saying and I respect your opinion. No one can deny that people in the grips of addiction can do some horrific and selfish things. I guess I'm just a more positive-psychology/strengths-based type who says "it's the behavior that's selfish, not the addict." Or something like that, you know? By all accounts (that *I've* read, at least), he sounded like an actually kind guy at his core who went out of his way for coworkers and fans. It also sounded like he tried to be a good father as much as possible.

I think we can all agree that the whole thing is just sad any way we look at it, even though he was a celebrity that none/most of us never met. Thanks for a respectful rebuttal.

It's not about heroin. It's about addiction. Heroin is a symptom of a bigger problem. How about never taking a drink, sip of caffeine, puff a smoke, bite of sugar, trip to Vegas and remaining abstinent for the rest of your life before you try to sit on that high horse and judge.

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